Official Google Earth Response
Read the response posted about this issue at the Official Google Blog.
Update from Google Earth Blog
Frank Taylor informs the Google Earth community on an immediate update to the imagery database, which now includes more recent post-Katrina images over New Orleans. He also advises to check back for any additional updates as they […]
Categories: Data
Tags: censorship, debate, google earth, redaction
Nikolas Schiller makes an interesting observation on the redactions present between archived aerial orthophotography metadata, distributed by the USGS, between the year 2002 and 2005 distributions. Although this is a practice that I don’t find surprising, as I’ve observed this since September 11th as well, I do have a general opinion on the paranoias associated.
I’ve […]
Categories: Data
Tags: metadata, personal rants, redaction
In Parts 1, 2, and 3 of this series — we discussed how software and utilities specific to working with geospatial imagery allow us to work-around the incompatibilities with popular image editors that do not support geospatial formats. However, there is a unique plugin that’s been designed for Adobe® Photoshop® to give users the ability […]
Categories: Formats · Software · Tutorials
Tags: geographic imager, geotiff, geotiff tutorial, Photoshop, photoshop plugins, plugins
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we explored the common use and options for a set of utilities to handle Geotiff metadata tags. This allowed us to be able to output and store that data in text format for later retrieval, so that we could then be able to install it into […]
Categories: Formats · Software · Tutorials
Tags: geotiff, geotiff metadata, geotiff tutorial, Global Mapper
In the first tutorial, Geotiff & Photoshop, Part 1; we went through the steps of using the listgeo and geotifcp commandline utilities to dump the metadata of a Geotiff .tif file, and how to re-stuff the metadata contained within the output text file back into a .tif image saved out of Photoshop®. But what if […]
Categories: Formats · Software · Tutorials
Tags: geotifcp, geotifcp gui, geotiff, geotiff tutorial, libgeogui, listgeo, listgeo gui
The Geotiff (or GeoTIFF) format, is a TIFF image that has special geospatial metadata tags in the header. Unfortunately, most industry standard image processing, manipulation programs and readers do not natively support geospatial metadata in TIFF images. Such examples are Photoshop®, and other similar programs. What can we do then in order to work with […]
Categories: Formats · Software · Tutorials
Tags: commandline programs, geotifcp, geotiff, geotiff tutorial, listgeo, Photoshop, utilities
